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  1. NYCTK
    Yesterday I called comments like this stupid and uninformed, and this remains true. Name a single young, deserving Twins player that hasn't received sufficient playing time thanks to the presence of a veteran. Instead of just repeating stupid talking points thrown around constantly here, try actually supporting your comments.
  2. NYCTK
    Nah. The stupid comments you come across on this site are within the normal bounds of wrong. Especially when you remember at the same time literally 40% of this country are essentially in a cult supporting a fascist and Jeffrey Epstein's best friend. This is the fun reprieve from that ****ed up reality.
  3. NYCTK
    If I insist on being wrong at all times I might suggest it's because the guy playing first base wasn't being given a chance to play first base.
  4. NYCTK
    I'm rude, but I'm right.
  5. NYCTK
    I wouldn't say I'm enthusiastic about Roden, in fact I said he'll probably suck too. But he's been better than Martin at every level up until about 2 weeks ago when Martin started to actually do something with his many opportunities, and Roden is a year younger. Martin has been nigh unplayable in the OF until very recently apparently (not watching so I can't say for sure) but I'd bet a lot of money on Roden as a defender over Martin going forward. Martin was so bad last year he was somehow undeserving of playing ahead of Manuel Margot. But regardless, my criticism is of someone saying they'd be fine with Martin or Fedko but suspected Twins would get STUCK with Roden. Which is just an uneducated comment. Especially since he has options (as do the others!) and the Twins aren't stuck with any of them.
  6. NYCTK
    The hatred of Roden on this website is really quite sad. It's completely irrational and driven by hatred of the trade that brought him here way more than him as a player. No denying he really, REALLY struggled in his 150 major league PAs, 40 with the Twins. But anyone that would choose Fedko or Martin over Roden is just being ridiculous. Odds are all 3 suck next year, but Roden is easily the best bet of the three. UNLESS you think Martin has truly turned a corner and is now a reliable OF. I don't buy that at all, so the choice is clear to me.
  7. NYCTK
    So Taylor and Solano, who started regularly for the Twins, weren't good enough to start regularly for any team, despite the team that they started regularly for going to the playoffs quite comfortably... Huh? This thinking is the same stupidity that had people upset about the Bader signing. No one is saying the Twins should hire all vets to fill out their roster and block their young players, but the Twins don't actually have a history of doing that, despite what the uninformed rubes here often cry about. I literally can't think of a single young player that wasn't given a proper chance to play on the Minnesota Twins this decade thanks to a veteran being signed. Manuel Margot is the closest example and the player he was "blocking" was DaShawn Keirsey, so, yeah.
  8. NYCTK
    Everyone should DH at all time clearly. Your opinion is bad. Yeah, the guy the Twins started in the playoffs at 1B wasn't getting a chance to play 1B. That surely makes sense if you don't think about it at all.
  9. NYCTK
    Nothing "happened". He's just another in a long line of decent but ultimately mediocre baseball players that fans raised their expectations too high for. Even last year, as a bat only player, he was a completely unremarkable hitter. A wOBA of 0.328 and an xwOBA of 0.306? His collapse is not at all unexpected.
  10. NYCTK
    It wasn't necessarily the worst idea to let Gray walk, but the Twins also lost a lot of innings in Maeda and Pagan, and even Keuchel to some degree, that weren't properly replaced. That's 400 quality innings that just disappeared with no plan to replicate, outside of more innings to Simeon Woods Richardson, which was never going to work out well.
  11. NYCTK
    If the improved defense is real and not just a blip, he's deserving of a roster spot. I'm not particularly hopeful that it's real improvement, but especially with an option year remaining, Austin Martin should be pretty safe on the Twins 40 man roster. Interesting to see Martin has been able to get a lot better jumps on the ball this season in comparison to last season, and even compared to other OF familiar to recent Twins fans: OF ft/sec Buxton 35.1 Taylor 34.9 Bader 34.4 Martin 34.3 Outman 33.9 Roden 33.4 Castro 32.3 Clemens 32.2 Kepler 31.9 Keirsey 31.6 Larnach 31.3 Wallner 30.7 I tend to believe this is more of a small sample anomaly and not an actual indicator of skill, but props to him for showing some evidence of improvement.
  12. NYCTK
    I'd say it's more due to Keirsey's lack or major league talent. But sure, let's just blame the coach like a know nothing parent.
  13. NYCTK
    Ok. But this is just further evidence that 2026 is at least one more rebuilding year, not that Clemens is any good that any team should try to keep around. No good team would want him around, on account of him being a bad baseball player.
  14. NYCTK
    You seem to not fully grasp just how awful DaShawn has been in his opportunities. And there's LITERALLY no reason to think he'll ever get any better. You can go back to all of my comments making fun of people for thinking Keirsey could do the same job as Bader for further evidence why this was very obviously wrong. He has a 109 RC+ in AAA and you seem to think as though that is meaningful, whereas anyone that actually knows baseball knows that is pretty mediocre and not indicative of someone that will hit in the majors at all. It's the exact same as Gilberto Celestino actually. Should the Twins call up Celestino and give him another chance? He's still 2 years younger than Keirsey and only got 400 PAs.
  15. NYCTK
    Sure, DaShawn. He is a bad player and has received more playing time than he actually deserves. I don't expect someone like you to understand. One day you might actually understand the game.
  16. NYCTK
    Pissed the phillies got Bader and Duran, while my Mets got Helsley and Mullins 😏
  17. NYCTK
    No offense to the author, but this is one of the dumbest headlines I've ever read. If you wanted to write this during or immediately after his hot May, I'd somewhat understand it. But now? Come on. He may be on the roster next year but only because this team isn't going to try too hard before Jenkins and Culpepper (or others) are ready to form a core or players. players
  18. NYCTK
    You have to be DaShawn Sr. There's simply no other explanation for how hard you defend the guy. He's not been unlucky. His xwoba is just as bad as his wOBA. He's just been unplayable man. Come to understand this.
  19. NYCTK
    Puckett. Absolute scumbag.
  20. NYCTK
    Because he correctly recognizes that Keirsey has no future as a MLB player.
  21. NYCTK
    Exclusively terrible owners and THE franchise player turned out to be a huge POS. The entire franchise is cursed.
  22. NYCTK
    You, quite literally, cannot.
  23. NYCTK
    Not a chance. MLB is probably pretty happy with the run scoring environment. For 2025 the 4.47 R/G is below the median (4.55) but within normal deviation. 2013-2015 (4.07-4.25) was far more extreme than what we see today. As was 2019 (4.86).
  24. NYCTK
    Sabato is the same as McCusker. Good on them to keep fighting to get to AAA but they haven't actually earned a MLB job. Neither has any defensive value and they both strike out in a third of their trips to the plate in AAA. The internal evaluation is the same the external evaluation. Sabato ain't ****.
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